Carefully, London manages to establish a connection between his nameless protagonist, his dog and nature. By crafting his narrative's setting, London develops a storyline which is both familiar and eerie. Themes are also carefully organized in order to, apparently, convey an overall sense of both connected and disruption as narrative's protagonist struggles for survival, physical and spiritual. If anything, London's choice of whiteness as his not only a color of a dominant component, i.e. snow, in his narrative but also as emblematic of solitariness emphasizes a recurring, literary question of Man vs. Nature. The deployment of metaphorical devices – e.g. Continue reading...